I think that if you carry a weapon you are pretty much opening yourself up to your opponents and giving them the opportunity to use it against you! Unless you are seriously sh*t hot at using a weapon then you have immediately introduced a lethal object into a situation which the opponents facing you may not have even thought of, and you just handed it to them on the plate. In this situation your heart will be going nuts, you will be dealing with all kinds of emotions and feelings and if you seriously believe you can pull this off then I want to train with you!
As a woman I carry a metal kubitan and I do have more lethal weapons in my car (!?! – there is a logic there I promise), I have spent a long time learning how to use my kubitan because although I known this can be used against me, but here’s another woman’s logic, I view the kubitan as less lethal than a knife, all I want to be able to do is hurt the opponents enough to leg it, not kill them and a knife immediately puts that situation on the table. My view is you carry a knife you have the intension of using it and knife fights can go very very wrong, very very quickly! and you could end up killing someone instead of just hurting them.
Introduce any weapon into an already emotionally charged situation you will always run the risk of it being used against you.
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